Serious Callers Only Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Haven't been able to access the board all morning. It only just now loaded for me. My fix. I need my fix. Do you realize how boring my life is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Board was down for unknown reasons and, obviously, is now back up. Those advocating ad blocking software for those occasions where certain ads slow the board to a crawl: please, please consider using them responsibly. The ads help with some of the cost of maintaining the board. If the board is operating just fine for you, don't make use of such a thing. Don't just put on ad blocking permanently. It's true that sometimes a particular set of ads do just slow things to a crawl. This is not, obviously, an every day occurance, so again ... please think twice about the issue when you're on the board, and if you must use such software, use it when you need it for viewing the board rather than just leaving it on by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriele Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I think I just downloaded this, I was looking for the last one of these Board Is Slow threads 'cause I'm pretty sure I got it from there (Bellis I think) but I can't find it. I think that's the one though. Is there one for Internet Explorer? I don't use Firefox because it messes with the FM Writer's chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Targaryen Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Ok, Ran. I won't use an ad-blocker. I realize it contributes to the board staying alive and it's really only a minor thing when I have to reload the page a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Yep, it's the www.assoc-amazon.com thing that keeps stalling the board for me as well. It's making the board nearly unusable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Blackfish Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Ran, I only turn mine on when things are really slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 LB, I definitely have no complaint with that. Just wanted to make sure people kept it in mind that the ads are useful to everyone (i.e. keeping the board going), and if on occasion there's problems, it's not typically the case. So ... if people would be so kind as to occasionally check to see whether ad blocking is really necessary or not, it'd be much appreciated by everyone, I expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Targaryen Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Ran, Do I have to click on the Amazon ads for the board to make money? I rarely click on them now because I'm not interested in what they are advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 No, no. Never click on anything you're not interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Targaryen Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Cool, saves some time. I do like how Amazon keeps track of what pages you view and tailors the ads to you. I have clicked a few times on investing, ASOIAF, and Star Trek stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 Argh! The board has been really, really slow today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 You'll find discussion about how to alleviate that on those occasions when it's happening a little upthread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sholtzma Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 The discussion board of westeros.org is still running slow. It was bad last night and is just as bad tonight. I can manage to get to a thread page if I refresh 3-4 times. This has been happening every 3-4 days now for about the past two weeks. Is it the ads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 It may be. Amazon seems to be having some trouble. As noted, there are things you can do to deal with it during those times when it's a problem. ETA: It's not the ads, and I'm guessing it's on your end. I've just tested and things seem to be loading fine for me, at least. No one else has reported anything today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 We've gotten in touch with Amazon.com regarding the ad issue. They seem to be taking the issue quite seriously, and indicate that they're hoping to do something that will resolve that problem. In the interim, they've said that it'd actually be fine if we modified the javascript involved in serving the ad. Our idea is that maybe the javascript could be modified so that if Amazon.com did not start sending its ad content within a certain timeframe, the javascript would kill itself and the board could move on in the loading process. We don't know if this is possible, not being javascript experts; the idea comes from the fact that you can do something like that with PHP. We're asking around some forums regarding the issue, but if anyone is a javascript expert and would like to give their advice/lend their services, please feel free to get in touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Maid Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 We've gotten in touch with Amazon.com regarding the ad issue. They seem to be taking the issue quite seriously, and indicate that they're hoping to do something that will resolve that problem. Thanks for the heads up. The ads doesn't seem to be giving me trouble, but the page does load very slowly for me at times. (and when tried to reply for this, the page refused to load at all. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nous Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I also got this problem a lot a few days back. I am not a javascript expert, but I think one option would be to use javascript's onload event. Remove the amazon ad from the code proper. In onload attribute of the body call a js function that adds the ad to the page. That way, the browser will try to load the ad only after it has gotten the rest of the page. That's how it should work in theory, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 That's an interesting suggestion. I'm not sure if it will work because currently the javascript is being called in through a separate file (I believe) rather than directly embedded in the pages we serve, but it's worth a look. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me399 Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Ran, There is definitely a problem with one of the adds. I normally use Safari on my mac and latley the board is almost unusable. I switched over to firefox with the ad-block on and the board was fast as hell, I then shut off the ad-block and it was really crappy again so that leads me to believe it is not Safari but an ad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Yes, it's probably Amazon acting up again. As I said, we're looking for ways to deal with it, and Amazon claims they may have a fix from their side soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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